Learn about the Executive Mentor Program
Program purposes:
- matches you with a business executive in your field of career interest
- provides someone who is willing to serve as a "sounding board"
- adds meaning to your classroom experiences
- gives a boost to your business and career development
- helps you keep perspective
- helps you develop insights and make better career choices
- is available to both MBA and BCom students
Program guidelines:
- voluntary participation
- apply throughout the year – whenever you are ready to meet a mentor
- mentors match your interests
- you and your mentor must agree that a match is a good fit
- your partnership runs two terms or eight months and can be extended if you and your mentor agree
- you and your mentor are the ones to establish expectations
- you and your mentor set your own agenda
- feedback and self-reflection are important for both you and your mentor
- commit your time - expect to meet once a month on average
- help you think through your life and career choices
- provide career path and industry guidance and insights
- share opinions, ideas and experience with you
- help provide you tactical knowledge and 'how to' realities, intangibles and nuances not provided in the classroom
- assist you to make sense of and integrate your academic and experiential learning experiences
- provide support, challenge you, and help you see what you can't see in yourself
- be friendly, motivated, respectful, worldly and open-minded, easy to talk to
- be someone you can look up to
- be accessible and respond to your communications
- help you gain connections through their network
- build a professional relationship that may grow
- be open to someone helping you think through personal and career issues
- be self-motivated and prepared to commit the time
- be accountable to make your relationship with your mentor a success
- have an interest in personal learning and reflection
